Tag Archive: I AM

“I have even from the beginning declared to you; before it came to pass I shewed it to you: lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.” Isaiah 48:5

“Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am.” John 13:29

Jesus came exactly when He said He would. He came in the “Fullness of time”, just at the right time. Jesus, who is God, knows the end from the beginning and has told us the things that will happen before they happen so that when they happen, we will know that He truly is the Son of God.

God used prophets to give clues about the: who and what and where and when and why ,concerning the Messiah, the Chosen One, that people were to be using to look for Him. People were to be looking for the Messiah, the Chosen One, that was to come and save them from their sins. The prophets were given these clues to speak and write down hundreds and sometimes even thousands of years before Jesus was ever born on earth as a man, never stopping being God.

These clues or prophecies are what make the Bibleseparate or totally different than any other religious book or book written by people in the entire world. God’s word is in a category all of its own. That would make sense if there is only one God: one God, one book. God’s clues, spoken by His prophets were to be searched and the people should have been longing for, wanting the Messiah to come.

This is what Christmas is all about! God’s promise finally happened. Emmanuel, God with us, was born into the world and was named Jesus which means “Jehovah or YHWH or I AM, is salvation.” There is no other Savior than God Himself. Christmas was God’s word, His promise, becoming flesh. Jesus is the Word of God in the flesh. Christmas is what proved that God’s promise really did happen and because this promise of Jesus happened along with many other prophecies given by God, we know we can trust Him in His word for those things that have not happened yet.

He came once and people were to be watching, and He promised that He would come again to bring His children to where the Father is, in heaven and then finally return for good as the ruling King over this earth. Be watching. Don’t be like those who didn’t watch for His first coming, but be paying attention, looking forward to the King who is coming again.

“I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold you hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the LORD: that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” Isaiah 42:6-9

How amazing indeed that the God who created this marvelously intricate universe, from the multifaceted nanomachines in our cells to the vastness, size, and beauty of the stars that adorn the skies, reveals Himself in the most wonderfully simple, yet incredibly profound name- “I Am“.

I once heard A.W.Tozer explain that he was careful never to use the word “adore” in reference to any person, even his wife. He explained that adoration was that sacred place in our hearts only meant for our Great God and Savior. May we keep our heart’s doors wide open to the True and Living God in the days we live!

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Quote of the Day

“To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results.”